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A one-time assistant coach of a disabled-children’s hockey team in Columbus has been arrested on
child-pornography charges.

Matthew J. Kiernan, 28, of 5602 Medinah Dr., Apt. B, in Hilliard, is charged with one count each
of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor and pandering obscenity involving a
minor. Both are felonies.

Members of the Franklin County Internet Crimes Against Children task force searched his
apartment on Thursday after determining that child pornography was possessed there and had been
distributed through the Internet from there, according to a news release from the Franklin County
sheriff’s office.

Kiernan admitted that he had been downloading and viewing child pornography for a decade,
according to the release.

A Franklin County judge set Kiernan’s bond at $10,000 yesterday. He was still in the county jail
last night.

Kiernan has been an assistant coach with the Ohio Blades, a team that allows disabled children
to play hockey by using sleds. Other adults associated with the team couldn’t be reached last
night, and it wasn’t clear when Kiernan last worked as a coach with the Ohio Blades.